School: An Píce (The Pike, Shinrone)
- Location:
- Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dúibheacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0532, Page 067
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- Cure Boils and sores, mix 1/4 lb lard and 1 oz of red precipic powder. Cure for warts. Camphorated oil. Castor oil. Cure for the whooping cough 8 ozs of wild thyme and a pint of water boil slowly until reduced to half a pint and before it is cool add 8 ozs of honey.
Ointment for burns
Melt an equal part of suet and bees wax and when it is cool it is hard. Heat a little of it and put it on a linen cloth and put it on the burn.
Hatty Murphy
Told by my sister.
- About ninety years ago in a place called Ballinahinch in Tipperary there was a number of inveterate gamblers who spent their nights in card playing and profanity. They would often stay gambling from Sunset to cock-crow.
One night after a particularly lurid exhibition the party broke up in disorder about midnight. One of the party(continues on next page) - Collector
- Frances Egan
- Gender
- Female
